guidepost / rule / standard / limit / target (old)

臬 character breakdown

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a Christmas tree.

Malte Monkey (mu) is setting up a Christmas tree (木) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He decorates the tree with eight-balls (八) and puts a holy cross (十) at the top of the tree.
self / oneself / from / since / naturally / surely

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a hand mirror, which someone uses to look at themselves.

The Eye of Providence (目) is looking at itself (自) in a handheld mirror (自) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). It think it's indeed looking very good, since Zorro (z) attached a petal (丶) to its eye (目).

Characters with 臬 as component

nickel (chemistry)
old variant of 曒[jiao3]
tottering / unsteady
vertical divider of a door way

Words with 臬

provincial judge (in imperial China)
variant of 杌隉|杌陧[wu4 nie4]
to take as a guiding principle (idiom)

Sentences with 臬

臬 currently does not appear in any sentence.